off the wall



madames of Brooklyn
distorted ugly portraits
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Submitted by haiku_artist on June 01, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 57
Words 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3

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